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The bloody horrors of San Domingo, where France undertook to cancel Emancipation, testify with a voice of wail that a race once lifted from Slavery cannot be again degraded.
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Sumner uses the example of San Domingo to illustrate that once a race is emancipated, it cannot be degraded again without dire consequences.
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